Friends of the Earth’s president, Erich Pica, had the following response:

“Capitulate, then compromise is not a strategy that will produce a real climate bill. It's time for senators to stop caving to corporate polluters and start listening to the people they represent who are demanding clean, safe energy and jobs.”

Pica noted that Friends of the Earth and a broad coalition of allied organizations have set forth seven principles describing what real climate legislation must achieve. Those principles are available athttp://climaterealitycheck.org/.

###

Friends of the Earth and our network of grassroots groups in 77 countries fight to create a more healthy, just world. Our current campaigns focus on clean energy and solutions to global warming, protecting people from toxic and new, potentially harmful technologies, and promoting smarter, low-pollution transportation alternatives.